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Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought she looked good after all she’d been through.<p>“I was an alcoholic first. I got drunk and fell in the creek and broke my back. Then I got hooked on the painkillers,” the 59-year-old grandmother said.<p>Over the …

As they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable time. His hair was matted upwards like a shrub. …

If you hope to land a job in the next three months, where in the country will you find the most vibrant job market? According to the just-released Employment Outlook Survey from staffing giant ManpowerGroup, the No. 1 spot is the Deltona, FL metropolitan region, which includes Daytona Beach and …

Kitchen upgrades topped homeowners' list of renovation projects in 2013, and the trend doesn't seem to be slowing, according to a new report released by real estate website Zillow earlier this month that names the big kitchen trends of 2014.<p>Like the insight we got from our friends over at Houzz on …

Off the back of impressive growth in 2013, we look at what the experts think will happen to house prices in the next 12 months<p><i>This story was first published on December 14. We will continue to update it as more predictions are published.</i><p>The housing market has undergone a huge turnaround in 2013. …

In case you have not marked your calendar yet, the annual gadget bonanza known as the Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner (it opens on Jan. 7). Held each year in Las Vegas, the massive convention is where I'll be for seven days after recovering from the holidays.<p>So what can you …

You've got to wonder why Amazon has been so cagey about releasing hard numbers on sales of its Kindle devices. Especially after a new analysis from Consumer Intelligent Research Partners that estimates about 20.5 million of the devices were in the hands of consumers as of the end of September.<p>But …

CES is typically Samsung's moment to show off its new TVs. Last year, we saw a few new models that have 4K screens, or what some call "Ultra HD."<p>4K screens have about 4,000 pixels across, versus the 1080 pixels across on most high-end HD TVs today. It may sound like a gimmick, but 4K is so clear …

It's a better movie for its errors<p><b>One of the great central action sequences</b> of <i>Gravity</i> — Alfonso Cuarón's mind-blowing new movie about two astronauts trapped in space — is unnecessary. I don't mean it's unnecessary to the plot, or to the movie and our enjoyment of it, because the scene is …

A quick glimpse of the Kawahira people<p>By Brazilian law, no one but a select few government workers is allowed to trespass on the land of the Kawahira, a tiny community of nomads that lives in the Amazon. They're one of the country's uncontacted peoples, indigenous groups that live in isolation from …